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Charles  Wmtworth  Upham. 


AN 


ADDRESS 

DELIVEKEO  IN  THE 

FIEST    CHURCH,    SALEM, 

AT  THE 

FUNERAL  SERVICES 

CHARLES  W.  UPHAM 

JUNE    18,    1875,         r 


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GEORGE    E.    ELLIS, 


▲NT)  THE 


SERMON 


PBEAOUED    ON    TUB;    SUCCEEDING    SABBATH, 

BY  THE  PASTOR,  ^Jj^ 

JAMES    T.     HEWES. 


PUBLISHED    BY    THE    FAMILY. 


SALEM: 

PRINTED   AT   THE    SALEM   GAZETTE   OFFICE. 
1875. 


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ADDRESS. 


In  the  midst  of  all  the  excitements  and  obser- 
vances 6f  our  local  centennial  celebration,  we  are 
drawn,  by  the  call  of  a  fond  respect  and  a  deep 
affection,  to  these  funeral  rites.  The  sanctuary 
repr-esenting  the  first  place  for  united  worship  of 
the  earliest  company  of  English  exiles  to  the 
Bay  of  Massachusetts,  has  within  its  walls,  for 
the  last  time,  the  form  of  him,  who,  in  the  line  of 
its  honored  ministers,  served  for  a  score  of  years 
in  its  pulpit  and  at  its  altar.  And  when  inability 
of  voice  and  health  compelled  him  then  to  change 
the  method  of  his  public  service,  he  found  in 
faithful  official  trusts,  municipal,  state  and  na- 
tional, and  in  labors  of  eminent  value  with  his 
pen,  the  tasks  which  occupied  and  improved  his 
full  round  of  years.  « 

There  is  no  shock  of  contrast,  no  incongruous 
relation,  but,  rather,  a  strange  fitness  and  har- 
mony, between  the  national  events  which  we 
have  been  commemorating,  and  these  more  pri- 
vate obsequies.  For  the  friend  whose  funeral 
rites  are  engaging  us  took  his  place  in  life,  in 


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profession,  character,  and  forms  of  high  ser- 
vice,— as  scholar,  divine,  magistrate,  statesman, 
historian,  and  biographer, — vv^ith  the  best  and 
foremost  of  those  whose  memories  and  achieve- 
ments have  been  in  our  thoughts.  So  far  as  a 
single  individual  can,  in  himself,  gather  about 
him,  personally,  the  same  elements  which  give 
interest  to  a  country,  its  history,  its  great  events, 
its  divines,  scholars,  merchants  and  patriots,  the 
tie  of  harmony  is  found  here.  Our  honored  and 
revered  friend  was  even  more  a  citizea  of  this 
country,  because  of  the  almost  accidental  fact 
that  he  was  not  born  in  it,  but  came  after  his 
boyhood,  in  a  bordering  British  Province,  back 
to  his  paternal  home,  here  to  live  and  die.  For 
liiore  than  one-half  of  the  nation's  century,  his 
career,  activity,  associations  and  employments, 
have  engaged  him  with  the  men  and  events  which 
make  up  the  nation's  records. 

How  completely  did  he  identify  the  labors  and 
the  delights  of  his  life  with  this  grand  old  his- 
toric town  of  Salem.  Thoroughly  versed  in  its 
history:  attached  to  all  its  interesting  and  in- 
structive associations  with  the  elder  days :  skilled 
in  tracing  out  its  leading  influence  in  the  devel- 
opment of  the  infant  colony — as  the  home  of 
many  of  its  early  Governors,  and  of  some  of  its 
ablest  men  and  noblest  women,  the  centre  once 


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of  a  world-wide  commerce  through  its  merchant 
princes  and  seamen,  the  nursery  of  eminent  pa- 
triots, statesmen  and  lawyers — he  fed  his  mind 
upon  its  records,  and  then  he  loved  to  rewrite 
them,  accurately,  vividly,  and  with  lucid  com- 
ments, that  children's  children  might  know  their 
fathers  by  their  toils  and  their  virtues.     How 
fitly,  too,  did  he  take  his  place  in  the  line  of  suc- 
cession with  that  series  of  remarkable  men,  who 
have  been,  for  two  and  a  half  centuries,  the  Pas- 
tors of  the  First  Church  of  the  Massachusetts 
Colony.    It  seemed  to  me  that,  either  in  assuming 
their  office,  in  acceding  to  their  duties  and  re- 
sponsibilities, or  in  making  a  study,  with  such 
charming  rehearsals,  of  their  characters  and  ser- 
vices as  developed  by  the  spirit  and  exigencies 
of  their  respective  times,  he  had  assimilated  to 
himself  the  strong  points,  the  antagonisms   and 
the  attractions  of  the  Christian  virtues,  as  exhibit- 
ed  in  them.    To  those  who  know  anything  to 
the  purpose  of  knowledge  about  our  local  his- 
tory, what  themes  of  romantic  and  instructive 
interest  come  up  with  the  mention  of  the  names 
of  two  of  the  earliest  of  those  Pastors,  Koger 
Williams  and  Hugh  Peters,  and  of  the  contem- 
porary Governors,  Winthrop,  Endicott,  Sir  Hen- 
ry Yane,  and  Bradstreet.     And  then  the  two 
Higginsons, — father  and  son,— examples  of  the 


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sweetest  piety  and  of  the  most  gracious  virtues 
in  ttieir  calling.  And  Barnard,  too,  in*  the  crisis 
when  patriotism  required  fidelity  of  spirit  and 
the  influence  of  a  well-appreciated  dignity  and 
authority  for  the  preaching  and  the  prayers  of 
anxious  and  troubled  times.  And  then  the  calm- 
ly wise  sage,  with  whom  Mr.  Upham  began  his 
ministry  as  a  colleague,-— one  of  the  veiy  first 
among  us  to  carry  his  devout  studies  into  the 
ways  of  God  in  the  philosophy  of  nature,— the 
venerable  Dr.  John  Prince.  I^  was  something  to 
wait  for  in  one's  dying  hour,  something  to  look 
for  in  the  unfoldings  of  the  new  life  that  leads 
up  from  mortality,  to  join  in  the  fellowship  of 
such  who  had  gone  before,  to  report  to  them  the 
later  harvestings  from  their  own  labors. 

Having  devoted  twenty  years  of  the  vigor  and 
enthusiasm  of  his  manhood  to  the  Christian  min- 
istry, on  the  basis  and  with  the  conditions  attached 
to  it  as  he  entered  upon  life,  of  course  the  whole 
subsequent  direction  of  his  studies  and  interests 
was  turned  into  a  more  or  less  professional  chan- 
nel. The  ministry  when  he  chose  it,  especially 
in  the  fellowship  and  community  in  which  he 
was  to  exercise  it,  was  then  the  most  honored 
and  envied  of  professions.  Its  expected  service 
and  work  were  of  the  highest  order,  requiring  of 
all  who  would  labor  and  be  esteemed  in  it,  sound 


scholarship,  varied  culture,  graces  of  person,  ad- 
dress and' character,  and  thorough  consistency  of 
life.  He  met  fully  all  those  exactions.  His  need- 
ed task- work  and  routine  of  duty  were  congenial 
with  his  taste,  and  gratified  his  pure  ambition. 
In  his  own  pulpit  and  in  those  of  his  brethren, 
he  was  an  instructive  and  impressive  teacher, 
dispensing  the  fruits  of  matured  study  in  didac- 
tic Christian  lessons,  toned  with  devout  and  rev- 
erent sanctions  for  faith  and  piety.  He  kept  in 
regard  the  balanced  and  harmonized  claims  of 
intelligent,  speculative  inquiry,  and  of  the  recog- 
nized limitations  of  the  intellect  when  dealing 
with  things  deep,  august,  and  mysterious.  His 
theological  publications  were  maturely  wrought 
from  the  best  mines  of  learning  then  opened,  and 
have  still  a  ifubstantial  value. 

The  traditionary  standard  of  duty  and  privi- 
lege for  the  ministry  as  he  took  his  place  in  the 
ranks,  allowed,  and  indeed  required,  that  one  who 
was  able  and  earnest  in  that  professional  work 
for  the  church,  should  at  his  will  or  necessity 
transfer  his  service  to  what  we  call  the  State, — 
to  civil  responsibilities  of  office  in  the  magistracy, 
the  convention,  the  assembly,  the  senate,  or  even 
the  nation's  forum.  No  man  that  fails  in  fidelity 
in  any  one  form  of  high  service,  is  apt  to  be  fit 
^or  much  success  in  any  other.     But  a  good, 


strong,  and  earnest  man,  if  impeded  by  infirmity 
in  his  first  preferred  vocation,  may  transfer  all 
that  trained  and  distinguished  him  there  to  other 
methods  of  truth  and  righteousness,  and  do  a 
manifold  work  of  usefulness.    Massachusetts  did 
not  initiate  its  ministers  for  an  inviolate  isolation 
as  priests.    It  is  congenital  and  inherent  in  the 
vitality  and  the  traditionary  pattern  of  this  bless- 
ed old  State,  or  Commonwealth,  that  those  who 
are  fitted  to  be  its  religious  guides,  should,  by 
force  of  the  genius,  talent,  patience,  and  fidelity 
of  that  calling,  be  fitted  also  for  secular  counsel, 
for  magistracy,  for  authority  in  educational  inter- 
ests, for  patriotic  influence,  and  for  setting  on 
record  the  histories  and  biographies  which  relcue 
from  the  tooth  of  time  the  men  and  events  whose 
survival  and  rehearsal  make  so  much  of  the  living 
impulse  of  our  own  right  aims  and  deeds.     So  it 
has  always  been  with  us  here,  and  when  it  is 
otherwise,  our  religious  teachers  will  lose  a  large 
measure  of  their  influence,  and  our  noblest  secu- 
lar interests  will  degenerate  into  mere  material 
and  temporary  objects. 

Having  left  his  pulpit  because  he  had  lost  his 
voice,  Mr.  Upham  had  still  thirty  years  of  life  of 
congenial  work,  and  all  of  it  useful  for  others. 
With  what  varied  and  fruitful  industry,  and  to 
what  permanent  results  Mr.  Upham  wrought  in 


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all  public  affairs,  and  in  choice  labors  of  the  pen, 
as  overseer  of  your  schools,  as  your  chief  magis- 
trate, as  the  State  Senator  of  your  district,  as 
your  Eepresentative  in  the  National  Congress,  as 
editor,  historian  and  biographer, — this  is  not  the 
place  nor  the  time  for  the  full  rehearsal.  He 
loved  most  historical  studies,  and  in  them  his 
excellence  was  the  greatest.  For  them  he  had 
the  aptitudes  alike  the  most  essential  and  the 
most  rare, — a  spirit  of  thoroughness  in  research 
and  the  authentication  of  facts;  impartiality  of 
spirit;  the  constructive  power  of  imagination  in 
recreating,  reclothing  and  identifying  the  past, 
and  that  calm,  though  kindled  tone  of  narrative, 
with  judicious  comment  and  illustration,  the  fruit- 
age of  years  of  wide  reading  and  rigid  mental 
discipline.  His  retrospective  studies  constructed 
the  biographies  of  worthies  who  had  lived  in  the 
vanished  centuries.  He  gave  the  charm  of  a 
reverential,  patriotic  rehearsal, — illustrated  by 
private  and  official  virtue  of  the  rugged  fibre, — 
to  the  memorial  of  his  father's  classmate,  in  old 
age  his  own  parishioner,  Timothy  Pickering; 
and  the  tender  tribute  of  his  fond  companionship, 
to  such  as  the  high-minded  statesman,  King,  the 
ingenious  and  enterprising  merchant,  Peabody, 
and  the  venerated  and  honored  judge,  White. 


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There  is  but  one  survivor  now,  and  he  in  the 
retirement  and  repose  of  a  most  fruitful  and  hon- 
ored life  of  like  tenor  with  Mr.  Upham's, — ven- 
erated and  beloved  in  the  scholar's  home  at 
Cambridge, — but  one  8ur\ivor  of  that  group  of 
kindred  spirits  in  the  profession  of  their  youth- 
fnl  choice  to  which  our  IViend  belonged, — Sparks, 
Oilman,  Everett,  Palfrey.  He  followed  in  the 
line  of  his  early  scriptural  studies  the  standard 
and  the  guides  recognized  when  he  began  them. 
Through  his  life  he  found  no  better;  a  Bible  au- 
thenticated with  a  divine  warrant;  an  illumina- 
tion helpful  beyond  reasoning;  a  sacred  Teacher, 
sinless  and  loving,  the  only  one  on  earth  who, 
when  he  knelt  in  prayer,  needed  not  to  ask  for- 
giveness of  men  or  of  God,  the  guide  and  saviour 
of  our  race ;  lessons,  which,  when  truly  opened 
to  the  intelligence  of  men,  and  reverently  obeyed, 
would  supplement  and  extend  all  the  revealings 
of  nature  about  the  mysteries  of  life  and  death. 
When  criticism  and  speculation,  doubting,  affirm- 
ing and  denying,  led  on  with  venturesome  con- 
fidence beyond  these  bounds,  he  ceased  to  follow. 
It  was  as  when  a  river  pilot,  used  to  navigate  by 
guides  and  landmarks,  trees,  hills,  and  the  smoke 
from  the  chimneys  of  human  homes,  finds  himself 
on  the  open  seas,  with  fog-banks  and  ice-bergs, 
without  soundings  or  aspects,  swept  by  currents, 


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and  having  no  port  but  foundering,  the  compan- 
ion of  the  albatross  and  of  homeless  birds  who 
can  sleep  on  the  billows.  If  it  comes  to  that,  he 
thought,  as  others  do,  that  instead  of  teaching 
others,  a  man's  full  and  vexing  task  is  to  try  to 
learn  for  himself. 

But  in  view  of  the  last  act  and  scene  of  life, 
as  we  gather  about  the  remains  of  one  whose 
earthly  course  is  closed,  it  is  not  intellectual  nor 
professional  ability  nor  service  that  tones  our 
feelings  or  our  thoughts  about  the  departed.  It 
is  the  impress  of  character,  the  mien  and  spirit, 
the  purpose  and  tenor,  the  impress  and  quality 
of  the  life,  which,  for  long  yeai-s,  in  private  and 
in  public,  at  home  and  among  associates  and  con- 
temporaries, has  been  maturing  the  judgment, 
silent  or  spoken,  concerning  him,  and  lettering 
the  memorial  of  him  whether  on  the  stone  or  on 
the  heart.  I  can  speak  here,  among  his  fellow- 
citizens,  only  as  a  friend,  as  a  younger  associate 
in  professional  relations  with  him,  and  as  one 
who,  by  the  interchange  of  letters  and  the  read- 
ing of  his  charming  works,  had  every  way  love 
and  respect  for  him.  Of  late  years,  as  I  have 
spent  the  weeks  of  summer  near  by,  it  has  been 
one  of  my  richest  resources  of  improvement  and 
pleasure,  to  visit  him  in  his  calm  retirement,  wait- 
ing for  life's  decline.    The  elaborate  biography 


of  Col.  Pickering,  so  rich  in  its  presentment  of 
a  career  of  singular  nobleness,  and  so  instructive 
in  its  delineation  of  the  war  epoch  and  the  cra- 
dle days  of  our  nation,  was  the  work  alike  of 
the  years  of  his  failing  bodily  strength,  and  the 
ripening  of  his  mental  and  moral  powers.    And 
with  what  a  serene  spirit,  with  what  a  patient 
consciousnese,  of  its  process,  with  what  a  trust- 
ful belief  that  while  it  was  change  it  was  not 
extinguishment  of  being,  did  he  note  the  decays 
of  nature,  and  nestle  in  the  solaces  of  his  home. 
He  sat  surrounded  by  his  loved  books  on  their 
shelves,  and  knew  that  there  was  something  as 
unexhausted  and  enduring  in  himself  as  in  them. 
His  pleasant  retrospects  transfigured  themselves 
into  cheering  prohoects. 

And  now,  as  for  the  last  time,  from  this  his 
pulpit,  I  look  upon  the  contents  of  this  casket, 
I  see  the  refined  beauty  of  M3  lineaments  and 
features,  as  yet  in  their  unwashed  nobleness  of 
dignity.  The  forehead  and  brow  still  show  the 
measure  and  compass  of  the  mind  once  tenant- 
ing and  serving  it.  The  kindly  greeting  of  his 
open  eye,  and  the  gentle  sweetness  of  his  voice, 
and  the  chastened  moderation  of  his  speech  on 
themes  of  high  import—these  are  now  to  be 
memories  with  you  and  with  me. 


SERMON. 


2  Timothy,  rv,  6,  7. 
For  I  AM  NOW  ready  to  be  obfeked,  and  the  time  of 

MY   departure   is  AT   HAND.      I  HAVE    FOUGHT  A  GOOD    FIGHT, 
I   HAVE  FINISHED   MY  COURSE,    I  HAVE   KEPT  THE   FAITH. 

These  are  among  the  last  words  that  the  Apos- 
tle Paul  ever  wrote.  On  this  account,  as  well  as 
on  account  of  their  intrinsic  significance,  they 
are  generally  regai'ded  as  constituting  one  of  his 
most  memorable  and  impressive  utterances. 

Call  to  mind  the  circumstances  under  which 
they  were  written.  Picture  to  yourselves  an  old 
man,  worn  and  broken  with  thirty  years  of  labor 
and  anxiety  in  the  cause  of  his  master.  Older 
in  the  number  and  weight  of  his  cares  than  of 
his  years,  exiled  from  the  laud  of  his  birth  by  the 
wide  waste  of  sea,  as  well  as  the  unjust  rigors  of 
the  law,  he  is  waif^in^,  a  prisoner,  to  be  tried  for 
his  life  before  the  great  court  of  Ca3sar,  at  Bome. 
He  knows  the  cruel  and  fickle  character  of  Nero, 
and  he  knows,  therefore,  that  there  is  little  chance 
for  him. 


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But  none  of  these  things  move  him.  He  has 
long  ago  learned  to  bear  suffering  with  fortitude, 
and  he  can  now  look  death  in  the  face  without 
fear.  He  not  only  looks  forward  to  his  probable 
fate  without  Ifear,  but  with  a  state  of  mind,  which, 
while  not  actually  courting  death,  regards  it  with 
the  calm  and  resigned  attitude  of  a  man  who 
had  given  himself  up  utterly  into  God's  hands, 
to  let  him  do  with  him  as  seemed  best  to  Infinite 
wisdom.  * 

And  if  you  will  read  the  whole  chapter  from 
Avhich  the  text  is  taken,  you  will  notice  as  you 
enter  into  the  spirit  of  it,  how  his  language 
seems  to  quiver  with  suppressed  emotion,  and 
his  tone  rises  into  a  strain  of  pathos  and  sublim- 
ity that  carries  you  completely  along,  and  charges 
you  with  the  reflection  of  his  own  feeling.  There 
is  something  in  this  picture  that  is  so  out  of  the 
common  order  of  human  experience,  something 
so  remarkable  and  impressive,  that  we  are  com- 
pelled to  stop  and  inquire  what  it  was  that  made 
Paul  so  calm  and  strong  and  resigned  in  the 
presence  of  death.  We  shall  not  have  to  search 
far  for  an  answer.  It  is  found  in  his  own  frank 
and  exultant  confession:  "  I  have  fought  a  good 
fight;  I  have  finished  my  course;  I  have  kept 
the  faith." 


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In  this  three-fold  utterance  is  condensed  the 
history  of  a  life.  Let  us  look  at  these  expres- 
sions a  few  moments,  and  ascertain  how  much 
they  meant  and  how  much  they  implied  in  the 
experience  of  the  great  and  saintly  man  who 
spoke  them. 

"I  have  fought  a  good  fight."  Paul's  life  from 
the  time  when  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  des- 
pised Galilean,  up  to  the  hour  when  he  was  car- 
ried a  prisoner  to  Kome,  had  been  a  constant 
warfare  with  the  errors  and  prejudices  of  his 
contemporaries.  His  remarkable  persistency  and 
courage,  his  brilliant  gifts  of  mind,  and  his  de- 
cided and  uncomi)romi8ing  attitude  toward  Juda- 
ism, made  him  a  prominent  mark  against  which 
his  enemies  hurled  their  loudest  threats  and  an- 
athemas. But  he  stood  up  valiantly  and  persist- 
ently against  them  all,  because  he  believed  he 
had  been  especially  chosen  to  be  the  custodian 
and  defender  of  a  gospel,  which,  however  unwel- 
come, was  the  revealed  message  of  heaven.  To 
turn  back  or  to  cease  to  go  forward  in  the  course 
on  which  he  had  entered,  seemed  like  disloyalty 
to  the  divine  call.  Even  the  thought  itself  looked 
like  treachery.  He  could  not  be  disobedient  unto 
the  heavenly  vision;  he  had  enlisted  as  a  soldier 
of  Christ,  and  he  must  carry  on  the  warfare  so 
long  as  life  and  strength  were  given  him.    Truly 


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could  he  say,  as  he  approached  the  end  of  his 
Christian  warfare,  "I  have  fought  a  good  fight." 
None  among  the  heroes  and  valiant  reformers  of 
the  world  ever  said  it  with  more  meaning  and 
truth.  How  few  even  among  the  great  men  of 
history  ever  gained  such  splendid  victory  over 
themselves;  how  few  ever  succeeded  so  com- 
pletely in  routing  the  prejudices  and  errors  of 
their  time. 

2d,  "I  have  finished  my  course."  Paul  does 
not  mean  that  he  had  done  all  the  work  that 
needed  to  be  done  in  his  day  and  generation. 
No  man  who  ever  lived  was  great  enough  to  ac- 
complish that.  God  has  divided  the  work  of 
educating  and  improving  society  among  an  innu- 
merable army  of  prophets  and  apostles.  To  one 
he  allots  the  arduous  and  toilsome  duty  of  pio- 
neering; to  another,  the  no  less  responsible  and 
important  work  of  laying  the  foundation;  to  a 
third,  the  building  of  the  superstmcture.  Some 
are  John  the  Baptists,  some  Messiahs,  some  apos- 
tles and  teachers, — and  all,  if  need  be,  must  be 
martyrs  in  the  grantF  and  providential  work  of 
building  up  the  ever-increasing  kingdom  of  God, 
and  rearing  the  magnificent  temple  of  the  New 
Jerusalem.  The  work  assigned  to  Paul  was  that 
of  a  skilful  master-builder,  constructing  upon 
the  foundation  already  laid  by  one  greater  than 


■  r  • 


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himself.     He  was  not  called,  nor  did  he  expect 
to  complete  the  temple.    If  he  could  be  the  in- 
Btrumcnt  of  setting  up  and  finishing  a  single 
layer  in  the  walls  of  the  rising  edifice,  he  would 
♦accomplish  all  that  was  expected  of  him.     And 
this  is  what  he  did  accomplish:  he  went  about 
preaching  the   gospel  to   men   who  hud  never 
heard  of  Christ ;  he  dotted  the  benighted  surface 
of  Paganism  with  Christian  churches;  he  carried 
the  glad  tidings  of  salvation  to  rude  and  igno- 
rant communities;    he  made  the  name  and  life 
and  resurrection  of  Jesus  a  familiar  and  touch- 
ing story  to  men  and  women  who  had  ceased  to 
have  a  faith,  ceased  to  look  upward  to  the  glory 
that  should  be  revealed,  and  who  had  therefore 
lost  hope  and  courage  in  the  dark  and  trying 
journey  of  life.     This  was  Paul's  allotted  work. 
C  "andly,  patiently,  unweariedly,  did  he  prosecute 
it.    Amid  obstacles  that  would  have  daunted  an 
ordinary  man,  under  discouragements  and  hin- 
drances that  would  have  been  formidable  enough 
to  quench  the  ardor  of  any  but  the  most  deter- 
mined  spirit,  the  valiant   apostle  continued   to 
prosecute  the  missionary  work  with  which  he  had 
been  specially  entrusted. 

3.  "  I  have  kept  the  faith.''  This  expression 
refers  not  to  any  particular  dogma,  but  was  sim- 
ply a  phrase  in  familiar  use  among  the  early 


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Christians  to  indicate  one's  allegiance  to  Christ. 
It  was  not  an  uncommon  occurrence  in  Paul's 
time  for  persons  who  had  professed  the  Christian 
name,  to  fall  back  into  their  old  habits  of  thought 
and  life.  Sometimes  it  happened  that  some  who 
still  professed  to  believe  in  Christ,  and  called 
themselves  Christians,  relapsed  into  their  former 
state  of  immoral  living.  Of  such  it  was  said 
that  they  had  not  kept  the  faith.  They  had  back- 
slidden from  the  moral  teaching  and  standard  of 
the  gospel. 

Now  Paul  hftd  been  perfectly  loyal,  both  to  the 
spirit  and  teachings  of  his  master.  One  desire 
was  uppermost  in  his  mind,  and  that  was,  to  see 
the  religion  of  Jesus  established  as  a  strong  and 
guiding  power  in  the  heai'ts  of  men.  And  so  he 
had  felt  called  not  only  to  preach  but  to  live  the 
gospel.  This  is  the  true  way  for  Christians  to 
keep  the  faith :  to  endeavor,  so  far  as  they  can 
under  the  limitations  of  human  weakness,  to 
stamp  the  image  of  Christ  upon  the  character, 
to  construct  out  of  the  four  gospels  that  are 
written,  a  fifth  gospel,  to  be  written  on  the  fleshly 
tablets  of  the  heart,  and  to  shine  out  in  the  living 
lineaments  of  the  character.  How  many  of  those 
who  love  and  revere  the  name  of  Jesus,  can  look 
into  their  own  hearts,  unroll  the  record  of  their 
lives,  probe  the  springs  of  their  conduct,  and 


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then  say  in  sincerity  and  truth,  "  I  have  kept  the 
faith?"  It  requires  a  ripe  and  advanced  Chris- 
tian experience  to  be  able  to  say  that  with 
meaning. 

It  will  be  a  source  of  unspeakable  satisfaction 
to  us  as  we  approach  the  goal  of  our  lives,  if 
we  can  look  back  over  the  weary  road  and  say: 
I  have  turned  neither  to  the  right  hand  nor  the 
left.  I  have  followed  the  straight  and  narrow 
path  of  duty.  I  liave  been  faithful  to  the  gifts 
and  opportunities  that  were  placed  at  my  disposal. 
There  is  nothing  else  that  is  so  rewarding  and 
so  grateful  to  a  conscientious  man,  as  the  sense 
of  duty  courageously  and  cheerfully  performed. 

It  is  a  source  of  grateful  consolation,  when 
those  we  honor  and  love  are  taken  from  us,  if 
we  can  look  back  over  their  past  career,  and, 
making  due  allowance  for  human  frailty,  can  say, 
as  we  close  their  eyes:  They  have  fought  a  good 
fight;  they  have  finished  their  course;  they  have 
kept  the  faith. 

This  consolation  is  ours  to  possess  and  enjoy 
to-day.  The  sense  of  the  loss  Ave  have  sustained 
in  the  death  of  the  friend,  fellow  citizen,  and  for- 
mer pastor  of  this  church,  is  softened  by  the  re- 
(lection  that  the  language  which  the  apostle  uses 
with  reference  to  himself,  can  be  applied  to  him 
with  fuller  meaning  than  to  ordinary  men. 


20 

Endowed  by  nature  with  uncommon  talents, 
he  improved  them  by  uncommon  patience  and 
industry.  Permitted  by  a  beneficent  Providence 
to  enjoy  a  lengthened  span  of  healthy  and  vig- 
orous life,  such  as  falls  to  the  lot  of  but  few,  he 
filled  all  the  years  with  faithful  service  for  God 
and  man.  An  acknowledged  leader  and  coun- 
sellor of  men,  he  shrunk  from  no  responsibility, 
and  turned  a  deaf  ear  to  no  call,  when  he  saw  an 
opportunity  to  advance  the  interests  of  truth  and 
righteousness.  Honored  and  beloved  by  his  peo- 
ple, during  the  twenty  years  of  his  pastorate, 
calling  out  from  them  an  admiring  regard  that  is 
not  common,  certainly  not  in  the  degree  in  which 
it  was  manifested  toward  him;  courteous,  atten- 
tive, and  thoughtful  even  in  the  minutest  things 
pertaining  to  his  pastoral  ^elation,  he  won  the 
hearts  of  his  people,  and  has  left  in  the  minds  of 
the  limited  and  constantly  diminishing  number 
of  those  who  constituted  the  sheep  and  lambs  of 
his  flock,  an  unfeigned  sense  of  sorrow  and  be- 
reavement; while  to  those  whose  acquaintance 
^vith  him  was  independent  of  the  pastoral  rela- 
tion, or  confined  to  the  subsequent  and  later  years 
of  his  life,  his  departure  is  the  sad  separation 
from  a  true  and  beloved  friend,  a  genial  and  in- 
structive companion,  and  a  respected  and  useful 
fellow-citizen. 


21     . 

But  I  must  not  dwell  upon  the  sense  of  loss 
which  we  have  sustained  'n  the  death  of  our 
friend.  The  truest  consolation  in  bereavement 
is  the  remembrance  of  the  pure  and  lasting  influ- 
ence which  the  departed  leave  behind  them. 
There  is  one  thing  of  which  death  cannot  deprive 
us.  It  is  the  garnered  and  bequeathed  wealth  of 
character.  As  the  sun,  sunk  below  the  western 
horizon,  reflects  his  rays  in  a  subdued  and  mel- 
low radiance  that  we  can  admire  and  study  in 
every  part,  so  does  a  true  man's  life,  after  he  is 
gone,  manifest  itself  in  reflected  lineaments  and 
shades,  that  stand  out  more  prominently  than 
before,  and  can  be  more  adequately  appreciated 
and  portrayed.  I  shall  not  attempt  on  this  occa- 
sion to  do  what  others  have  already  so  fittingly 
and  thoroughly  done,  and  shall  pass  by  the  out- 
ward facts  and  events,  in  order  to  call  attention 
to  one  or  two  traits  of  his  character  that  have 
made  the  most  marked  impression  on  me  in  my 
intercourse  with  him. 

1.  Our  friend  combined  in  a  remarkable  de- 
gree great  decision  and  firmness  of  character, 
with  a  rare  share  of  charity  and  generosity  of 
judgment.  Knowing  how  strong  his  own  opin- 
ions were,  and  knowing  how  liable  he  was  to  be 
biassed  by  them  in  his  judgments  of  others,  he 
seemed  to  take  scrupulous  pains  to  weigh  the 


■     :  ■  22 

words  and  enter  into  the  feelings  of  those  with 
whom  he  differed.  As  a  resnlt  of  this  careful 
balancing  of  the  scales,  he  attained  to  that  rare 
habit  with  men  of  as  strong  feelings  as  his  own, 
of  judging  not  according  to  the  appearance,  but 
of  judging  righteous  judgment. 

His  conversations  and  his  published  writings 
showed  him  to  be  a  just  man,  capable  of  reading 
the  human  heart,  and  of  penetrating  to  the  guid- 
ing motives  of  men.  He  could  make  allowance, 
therefore,  for  human  frailty,  and  was  always 
i.  ^'^^^V  with  generous  excuse  for  those  who  had 

I  fallen  short  of  the  desired  mark. 

\  Entertaining  decided  opinions  upon  theologi- 

:  cal  questions,  and  having  in  his  early  ministry 

t  entered  warmly  into  the  religious  controversies 

f  ^^  <^he  day,  he  had  the  kindest  and  most  gener- 

^  o"s  feelings  towards  his  opponents.     He  has  of- 

ten expressed  to  me  the  sentiment,  that,  impor- 
tant as  opinions  are,  in  the  attainment  of  social 
and  religious  progress,  they  are  not  paramount 
,       .  and  do  not  constitute  the  man;   that  Christian 

manliness  and  practical  godliness  were  the  two 
things  to  be  supremely  honored  and  desired. 
Pleasant  as  it  was  to  agree  with,  it  was  not  un- 
pleasant to  differ  from  him,  for  you  felt  that  your 
view  of  the  case  would  receive  conscientious 
hearing,  and  that  full  justice  would  be  done  you 
in  his  own  mind. 


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Anil  the  same  liberality  of  judgment  which  he 
manifested  toward  men,  he  showed  toward  those 
religious  sects  from  which  he  diftered.  A  decided 
Unitarian  to  the  last,  he  was  yet  of  opinion  that 
the  time  had  come  for  sects  to  lay  aside  their 
weapons  of  controversy,  and  unite  upon  the  com- 
mon ground  of  practical  Christianity,  undei*  the 
banner  and  leadership  of  Christ.  This  senti- 
ment, often  expressed,  made  the  moie  impression 
on  me  when  I  remembered  how  valiantly  he  had 
broken  the  lance  in  his  younger  days  w^ith  foe- 
men  worthy  of  his  steel,  and  how  e^agerly  he  had 
leaped  to  the  defence  of  what  he  regarded  the 
True  Faith.  It  showed  what  age  and  reflection 
will  do,  even  for  the  most  ardent  and  impetuous 
natures,  in  softening  the  spirit  of  controversy, 
and  leading  men  to  set  the  highest  value  upon 
things  that  are  of  supreme  importance.  Would 
that  the  time  had  indeed  come  for  such  a  con- 
summation as  he  indicated  and  desired.  Would 
that  the  day  had  arrived  when  the  sects  of  Christ- 
endom should  no  longer  sharpen  their  weapons 
against  one  another,  but  join  in  one  great  army 
to  fight  the  warfare  against  the  common  enemy 
of  God  and  man. 

2.  Another  quality  with  which  he  was  strong- 
ly endowed  by  luiture,  and  which  his  favorite 
studies  had  constantly  nurtured  and  increased. 


-  o 


* 


! 


24: 

was  his  love  and  loyalty  to  what  was  old  and 
venerable.  He  loved  old  people,  old  houses,  old 
books,  and  old  associations.  Need  I  add  that  he 
loved  old  Salem,  and  this  ancient  and  historic 
church,  with  an  ardor  and  intensity  only  second 
to  that  with  which  he  regarded  his  own  living 
kindred  and  friends.  Few  men  were  so  thor- 
ouglily  conversant  with  the  local  history  of  this 
neighborhood,  and  none  had  the  power  of  invest- 
ing it  with  greater  charm  of  romantic  and  in- 
structive incident.     It  was  delightful  to  sit  and 

I  .  .  . 

]'  listen,  while  he  portrayed  with  a  dramatic  and 

fervid  eloquence  of  well-chosen  words,  the  scenes 
and  characters  of  a  bygone  age.  So  life-like 
and  pictorial  were  his  delineations  of  historic 
scenes,  that  the  past  was  photographed  upon  the 
mind  of  his  hearers,  and  became  fresh  and  living 
annals  to  be  treasured  among  the  richest  posses- 
sions of  memory. 

Nor  was  this  exclusively  an  intellectual  gift. 
It  was  intimately  allied  to  the  native  qualities  of 
his  heart  and  character.     Men  are  eloquent  only 
y  when  they  talk  concerning  things  they  love  and . 

.     ;.  venerate.    Out  of  the  abundance  of  the  heart 

the  mouth  speaketh,  in  a  way  to  interest  and 
move  men. 

He  loved  old  things  not  because  they  were 
;.  old,  but  because  he  understood  their  value,  and 


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wished  to  gather  them  up  for  the  benefit  of  the 
present  and  future  generations.  It  is  a  mark  of 
an  advanced  state  of  civilization  to  venerate  and 
treasure  the  deeds  and  sayings  of  our  ancestors, 
and  he  is  a  true  benefactor  to  his  kind  who  dili- 
gently and  carefully  collects  the  annals  of  for- 
gotten days  and  puts  them  into  a  form  that  shall 
awaken  general  and  popular  interest. 

I  must  pass  by  many  eminent  and  admirable 
traits  in  the  character  of  our  friend,  to  speak  in 
closing  of  one  that  impressed  all  who  came  in 
contact  with  him.  I  do  not  know  how  I  can  so 
well  designate  it  as  to  employ  the  same  language 
which  he  employed  nearly  fifty  years  ago,  in  de- 
scribing an  eminent  friend  who  had  just  departed: 
"  He  was  distinguished  for  the  native  simplicity 
of  his  heart  and  manners."  "He  would  listen 
with  respect  and  confidence  to  all,  however  hum- 
ble, or  however  young,  who  might  be  thrown  in- 
to his  company.  In  his  manners  and  in  his  feel- 
ings he  carried  the  great  Christian  doctrine  that 
we  are  all  of  one  blood,  brethren  of  the  same  fam- 
ily, children  of  the  same  parent,  heirs  of  an  equal 
inheritance,  into  the  most  perfect  development." 

This  language  which  he  used  to  describe  the 
character  of  that  eminent  soldier  and  statesman 
whose  fuller  and  complete  portraiture  he  spent 
the  last  years  of  his  life  in  perfecting,  may  be  as 
properly  applied  to  himself. 


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There  was  about  him  an  urbanity  and  grace 
that  won  old  and  young;    there  was  a  mellow 
I  radiance  in  his  smile  that  warmed  those  who  met 

L  '  him,  and  made  them  feel  happier  because  they 

i  had  met  him;    a  cordiality  in  the  giasp  of  his 

I  ..  hand,  an  unction  in  his  voice,  an  indescribable 

!  something  that  made  you  feel  that  he  was  glad 

to  see  you  and  welcome  you  to  his  home  and  his 
I  •  heart.     Whether  we  think  of  it  as  the  ripe  pro- 

:  duct  of  culture,  or  the  spontaneous  blossoming 

j  of  a  rich  and  social  nature,  and  it  was  probably 

i      .  a  union  of  both,  it  was  a  rare  and  beautiful  cpial- 

I  ity,  which,  now   that  he  is  gone,  enshrines  his 

:  memory  with  a  halo  of  light,  and  preserves  his 

i'  image  to  our  inward  thought. 

I  Such  was  our  friend,  and  such  the  outline  of 

some  of  the  attractive  and  striking  traits  of  his 

character.     Though   we  shall   see   his   face   no 

J  more,  we   shall  all  cherish   his  memory   among 

the  precious  treasures  of  our  lives.     Though  his 
spirit  is  ascended,  he  has  left  behind  the  immeas- 
urable  influence   of   his  life   and   work.     That 
i  [  cannot  die.    It  will  continue  to  live  in  this  church 

I  and  community  so  long  as  the  children  shall  con- 

tinue to  abide  and  worship  here,  and  so  long  as 
men  continue  to  be  grateful  for  the  labors  and 
accumulated  wisdom  of  their  fathers.  His  toil 
is  done,  but  his  work  remains.     His  warfare  is 


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over,  but  the  victories  are  ours.  All  that  he  ac- 
complished is  ours  to  possess,  to  imitate  and  to 
improve  for  the  vveliare  of  the  coming  geneia- 
tion. 

Let  us  faithfully  improve  the  legacies  of 
good  meji:  let  us  gather  up  the  treasures  of 
their  wisdom,  and  imitate  the  purity  of  their  ex- 
ample: then,  when  our  work  on  earth  is  doue, 
we  may  be  able  to  say  with  Paul,  "I  have  fought 
a  good  fight;  I  have  finished  my  course j  I  have 
kept  the  faith." 


SELECTIONS  OF  SCRIPTUKE, 
Read  at  the  Funeral  of  Charles  W.   Upham. 


How  beautiful  upon  the  mountains  are  the  feet  of  him  that 
bringeth  good  tidings,  that  publishoth  peace ;  that  bringeth 
good  tidings  of  good,  that  publisheth  salvation  ;  that  saith  unto 
ZioTi,  Thy  God  reigneth  ! 

They  that  be  wise  shall  shine  as  the  brightness  of  the  firma- 
ment ;  and  they  that  turn  many  to  righteousness,  as  the  stars 
for  ever  and  ever. 

And  when  the  chief  shepherd  shall  appear,  they  shall  receive 
a  crown  of  glory  that  fadeth  not  away. 

Know  ye  not  that  there  is  a  prince  and  a  great  man  fallen 
this  day  in  Israel?  •    ,    ■ 

All  ye  that  are  about  him  bemoan  him ;  and  all  ye  that 
know  his  name,  say,  How  is  the  strong  staff  broken,  and  the 
beautiful  rod ! 

For  he  was  a  good  man,  and  full  of  the  Holy  Spirit  and  of 
faith. 

The  steps  of  a  good  man  are  ordered  by  the  Lord ;  and  He 
delighteth  in  his  way. 

Though  he  fall,  he  shall  not  be  utterly  cast  down ;  for  the 
Lord  upholdeth  him  with  His  hand. 

Mark  the  perfect  man,  and  behold  the  upright ;  for  the  end 
of  that  man  is  peace. 

Let  me  die  the  death  of  the  righteous,  and  let  my  last  end 
be  like  his ! 

The  righteous  cry  and  the  Lord  heareth,  and  delivereth  them 
out  of  all  their  troubles. 

He  redeemoth  the  soul  of  his  servants ;  and  none  of  them 
that  trust  in  Him  shall  be  desolate. 


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Hoar  my  prayer,  0,  Lord,  aud  let  my  rry  come  unto  Thee. 

Hide  not  Thy  face  from  me  in  the  day  wheu  I  am  iu  trouble. 

From  the  end  of  the  earth  will  I  cry  unto  Thee,  when  my 
heart  is  overwhelmed  ;  lead  mo  to  the  rock  that  iH  higher  than  I. 

For  Thou  haat  been  a  shelter  for  me,  and  a  strong  tower  for 
my  soul  in  its  ufilictiou. 

Let  thy  merciful  kindness  be  for  our  comfort,  and  lift  Thou 
up  the  light  of  Thy  countenance  upon  us. 

God  is  our  refuge  and  strength,  a  very  present  help  iu  trouble. 

The  memory  of  the  just  is  blessed. 

I  have  8CCU  the  good  mau  in  power,  and  my  heart  was  glad 
within  me. 

When  the  ear  heard  him,  theu  it  blessed  him,  and  wheu  the 
eye  saw  him,  it  gave  witness  to  him ; 

Because  ho  delivered  the  poor  that  cried,  and  the  fatherless, 
and  hira  that  had  none  to  help  him. 

The  blessing  of  him  that  was  ready  to  perish  came  upon 
him  ;  aud  he  caused  the  widow's  heart  to  sing  for  joy. 

He  put  on  righteousness,  and  it  clothed  him  ;  his  judgment 
was  as  a  robe  aud  a  diadem. 

He  was  eyes  to  the  blind,  and  feet  was  he  to  the  lame. 

He  was  a  father  to  the  poor  ;  aud  the  cause  which  he  knew 
not  he  searched  out. 

Uuto  him  men  gave  ear  and  waited,  and  kept  silence  at  his 
counsel. 

After  his  words  they  spake  not  again,  aud  his  speech  dropped 
upou  them. 

Aud  they  waited  for  him  as  for  the  rain ;  and  they  opened 
their  mouth  wide  as  for  the  latter  rain. 

He  chose  out  their  way,  and  sat  chief  and  dwelt  as  a  king  in 
the  army,  as  one  that  coraforteth  the  mourners. 

But  if  a  mau  die,  shall  he  live  again? 

I  would  not  have  you  tr>  be  ignorant,  brethren,  concerning 
them  which  are  asleep,  that  yc  sorrow  not,  even  as  others  who 
have  no  liope. 

For  if  we  believe  that  Jesus  died  and  rose  again,  even  so 
thera  also  who  sleep  in  Jesus  will  God  bring  with  him. 

As  is  the  earthy,  such  are  they  also  that  are  earthy  ;  and  as 
is  the  heavenly,  such  are  they  also  that  are  heavenly. 


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And  .13  we  have  borne  thn  image  of  the  earthy,  we  shall 
also  bear  tho  image  of  the  heavenly. 

Who  shall  separate  ua  from  the  love  of  Christ?  ^hall  tribu- 
latiou,  or  distress,  or  persecution,  or  famine,  or  nakedness,  or 

peril,  or  sword  r' 

Nay,  in  all  these  things  we  are  more  than  conquerors  through 

him  that  loved  us. 

For  I  am  persuaded  that  neither  death  nor  life,  nor  angels 
nor  principalities,  nor  powers,  nor  things  present,  nor  things^ 
to  come,  nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any  other  creature,  shall 
be  able  to  separate  us  from  the  love  of  God,  whh-.h  is  in  Christ 
Jesus  our  l-ord. 


APPENDIX. 


Mr.  Upham  died  Tuesday  Morning,  June  1.5111,  1875  ; 
the  funeral  took  place  on  Friday,  the  18th,  and  the  fol- 
lowing notices  of  it  appeared  in  the  Salem  Register  and 
Salem  Gazette  of  the  succeeding  week  : 

[From  the  Salem  Register  of  June  21.] 

The  Funeral  of  our  lamented  fellow  citizen,  Charles  W. 
Upham,  took  place  on  Friday,  at  uoon.     The  services  were 
held  in  the  First  Church,  over  which  he  had  formerly  been  the 
beloved  pastor  for  a  score  of  years,  and  were  attended  by  the 
relatives  and  friend^  the  Mayor  and  city  authorities,  several 
Ex-Mayors,  Ralpli  Waldo  Emerson  and  Josiah  Ciuincy,  of  his 
College  Class,  and  a  goodly  number  of  acquaintances  and  fel- 
low citizens  desirous  of  paying  the  last  tribute  of  their  respect 
U)  one  80  highly  esteemed.     A  chaste  mourning  drapery  wa.s 
hung  in  front  of  the  pulpit,  the  casket  containing  the  body  be- 
iu"'  plaeed  on  a  bier  beneath,  and  a  saperb  floral  cross,  wreath, 
and  other  choice  floral  emblems,  were  appropriately  disposed. 
Tlie  services  were  very  simple  and  solemn.     After  a  dirge  by 
tlie  organist,  the  choir  chanted    "  Hetir  Thy  childrtui  cry  to 
Thee,"  the  musical  exercises  throughout  being  very  judiciously 
and  beautifully  rendered.     Rev.  E.  S.  Atwoful,  of  the  South 
Church,  then  ofl^ered  a  very  fervent  and  impressive  invocation  ; 
Rev.  J.  T.  Hewes,  the  pastor,  read  appropriate  selections  from 
the  Scriptures;  Rev.  Dr.  George  E.  Ellis,  of  Boston,  paid  a 
most  admirable  tribute  to  the  life  and  character  of  the  deceased, 
the  justness,  comprehensiveness,  and  finish  of  which,  gave  great 
satisfaction  to  the  entire  audience  ;  and  Rev.  Mr.  Hewes  otlbred 


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the  prayer  for  the  faaiily  and  friends.  Rev.  Dr.  FAlis  then 
read,  and  the  choir  sang,  the  following  verses  from  Montgom- 
ery's hymn : — 

Servant  of  God,  well  done ! 

Rest  from  thy  loved  employ : 
The  battle  fought,  the  victory  won, 

Enter  thy  Master's  joy. 

Soldier  of  Christ,  well  done  1 

Praise  be  thy  new  employ ; 
And,  while  eternal  ages  run, 

Rest  in  thy  Saviour's  joy. 

The  Benediction  was  then  pronounced  by  the  pastor,  and  the 
assembly  slowly  dispersed,  the  funeral  cortege  proceeding  to 
Harmony  Grove  Cemetery;  where  the  remains  were  deposited 
in  Mr.  Upham's  family  tomb. 


[  From  the  Salem  Gazette  of  June  22.] 

The  funeral  services  over  the  remains  of  Mr.  Upham,  at 
the  First  Church,  on  Friday  last,  were  very  solemn  and  im- 
pressive. The  opening  prayer,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Atwood,  devout- 
ly mingled  the  sorrow  which  for  the  present  is  grievous  with 
the  Christian  anticipations  of  a  blessed  life  to  come,  in  which 
sorrow  and  grief  shall  be  no  more  known.  The  selections 
from  Scripture,  read  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  Mr.  Howes,  were 
most  happily  chosen.  Tlie  memorial  address,  by  Rev.  Dr. 
George  E.  Ellis, — an  early  friend  in  the  ministry,  and  associate 
in  literary  pursuits  and  intercourse, — was  an  admirable  deline- 
ation, touching  from  its  direct  simplicity  and  warm  and  affec- 
tionate spirit  of  cordial  appreciation.  The  music,  under  the 
direction  of  Mr.  *  ege,  was  exactly  what  the  occasion  required. 
The  attendance  wac  large,  from  every  class  in  our  own  commu- 
nity,— for  Mr.  Upham's  kindly  regard,  in  life,  knew  no  dis- 
tinction between  high  and  low, — and  included  gentlemen  of  the 
greatest  eminence,  from  different  parts  of  the  State.  On  Sun- 
day, at  the  First  Church,  a  very  appropriate  and  impressi^  e 
funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hewes,  paster 
of  the  church,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Fred- 


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erick  A.  Farley,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  came  forward  from 
amoug  the  congregation,  and  made  some  eloquent  remarks, 
after  which  he  read  iu  a  most  touching  manner  Mrs.  Barbaidd'a 
beautiful  hymn : — 

How  blessed  the  righteous  when  he  dies ! 

When  sinks  a  Aveary  soul  to  rest, 
IIow  nuldly  beam  the  closing  eyes. 

How  gently  heaves  the  expiring  breast! 

So  fades  a  summer  cloud  away, 

So  sinks  the  gale  when  storms  are  o'er. 

So  gently  sinks  the  eye  of  day. 
So  dies  a  wave  along  the  shore. 

A  holy  quiet  reigns  around, — 

A  calm  which  life  nor  death  destroys: 

Nothing  disturbs  that  peace  profound, 
Which  his  unfettered  soul  enjoys. 

Farewell,  conflic*-   g  hopes  and  fears, 

Where  lights  ■    d  shades  alternate  dwell: 

How  bright  the  unchanging  morn  appears ! 
Farewell,  inconstant  world,  farewell. 

Lifc's  duty  done,  as  sinks  the  clay,  , 

Light  from  its  load  the  spirit  flies ; 

While  heaven  and  earth  combine  to  say, 
"  How  blest  the  righteous  when  he  dies !" 


At  a  meeting  of  the  City  Council  of  Salem,  lidd  on 
Monday  evening,  July  12th,  1875,  the  following  Reso- 
lutions were  passed  : — 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  the  City  Council  deeply  de- 
plore the  death  of  the  Hon.  Charles  W.  Upham,  Chief  Mag- 
istrate of  this  city  during  tlie  year  1852,  who  was  alike  hon- 
ored and  distinguished  in  all  the  various  relations  of  life,  both 
public  and  private,  to  which  he  was  called, 

Besolved,  That  the  members  of  the  City  Council  tender  their 
heartfelt  sympathy  to  the  family  of  the  deceased,  under  the 
severe  dispensation  of  an  overruling  Providence. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  transmitted  to 
the  family  of  the  deceased. 


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At  the  meeting  of  the  Essex  Institute,  June  2l8t, 
1875,  President  Wheatland  in  the  Chair,  General  II. 
K.  Oliver  oiiercd  the  f(>ll()wing  Resohitions  : — 

"  Whekeas,  it  lias  pleased  the  Supremo  Ruler  of  events,  to 
remove  by  death  our  honored  and  venerated  a^tioeiate  and  fel- 
low citizen,  Chahlks  Wentworth  L'piiam,  long  connected 
with  the  P^ssex  Institute,  and  for  a  half  century  identilied  with 
this  conmiunity  in  many  relations, 

Resolved.  That  the  members  of  the  Institute,  deeply  feelings 
the  irreparable  loss  it  has  sustained,  enrol  his  name,  with  un- 
feigned grief,  among  the  most  eminent  of  its  past  associates. 

Resolved,  That  while  we  mourn  the  loss  of  so  valucil  a 
member  of  our  Society,  and  so  justly  esteemed  as  a  citizen, 
our  sorrow  is  tempered  as  we  look  back  upon  a  life  so  true  to 
all  the  purposes  of  life,  and  read  the  record  of  the  varied  vir- 
tues and  singular  excellencies,  which  characterized  the  whole 
career  of  our  departed  associate. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  career  as  a  faithful  and  earnest  minis- 
ter of  the  Gospel,  in  his  zealous  labors  as  a  citizen  for  the  best 
interests  of  our  conmiunity,  as  u  patriotic  othcial  in  State  and 
Nation,  as  a  successful  laborer  in  the  fields  of  literature,  biog- 
raphy, and  history,  he  has  fully  won  for  himself  the  highest 
reputation,  and  conferred  increased  distinction  upon  our  aucient 
municipality. 

Resolved,  That  as  we  review  the  long  and  inspiring  catalogue 
of  the  gi'cat  and  good  men,  who,  from  the  earliest  days,  have 
adoi-ned  and  illustrated  our  historic  city,  our  just  pride  receives 
a  new  impulse  iu  adding  to  the  honored  roll,  the  name  of  one 
so  fully  entitled  to  receive  reverent  admiration  and  honor 
among  the  most  highly  honored  and  revered. 

Resolved,  That  these  liesolutious  be  entered  on  the  records 
of  the  Society,  and  a  copy  sent  to  the  family  of  the  deceased." 

Appropriate  remarks  were  made  by  Gen.  II.  K.  Oli- 
ver, Rev.  E.  C.  Bolles,  Rev.  E.  S.  At  wood,  Charles 
H.  Higbee,  Abner  C.  Goodell,  uiid  Dr.  II.  Wheatland, 
and  the  resolutions  were  unanunoiisly  adopted. 


